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Menace Beach Share Satellite

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With their new album, Black Rainbow Sound, set for release August 31 via Memphis Industries, Leeds-based duo Menace Beach are sharing the last single from the new record, ‘Satellite’. Explaining what the new single is about, Ryan of Menace Beach said “I wrote the words to 'Satellite' after I came back to Leeds and saw how crazily nuanced and weird the bond between Liza and her dog had become. It got me thinking about clairvoyance in human relationships and how developed and extrasensory they would become if we constantly studied each other as much as that little guy watches Liza, or even if we just paid a little more attention to each other.”

New album, Black Rainbow Sound, is the band's first new material since early 2017’s Lemon Memory, and after a self-imposed break from tour duties, the album exhibits a profound shift in their sound, whilst still mainlining the blasts of noise, visceral power, and timeless pop songsmithery of their previous releases. Unlike the bands previous records, Black Rainbow Sound came to life in the bands studio, where Liza Violet and Ryan Needham built dense late-night orchestrations from drum machines, synthesizers, loops and guitar noise, before being ripped apart and reimagined by the full Menace Beach cast at The Nave studio in Leeds with producer Matt Peel (Eagulls).

Liza adds “There’s always been a bit of artistic push and pull between us on the balance of synth noise vs guitars noise and the guitars have previously always taken over, probably because we all know now how to make loud guitars sound really exciting in a room. But when we started writing this record I was feeling too much reality in the sound of a guitar and I really wanted to give something more this time. Once I had the sounds in my head I couldn’t really compromise."

See Menace Beach live:

7 Sep – Leeds, Jumbo Records – 5:30PM

8 Sep – Huddersfield, Vinyl Tap Records – 2PM

9 Sep – Sheffield, Bear Tree Records – 3PM

11 Sep – Wakefield, Wah Wah Records – 6PM

18 Oct – Derby, The Hairy Dog

20 Oct – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds

22 Oct – Glasgow, Broadcast

23 Oct – Newcastle, The Cluny 2

24 Oct – Manchester, Deaf Institute

25 Oct – London, Oslo

26 Oct – Bristol, Rough Trade

27 Oct – Sheffield, Picture House Social

02 Nov – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

 

 

 

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Menace Beach New Single

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Leeds-based Menace Beach, made up of Liza Violet & Ryan Needham, are sharing new single ‘Crawl in Love’, taken from their album, Black Rainbow Sound, which is set for release August 31 via Memphis Industries. The band are also set to tour the UK this October & November. Speaking about the new song, Ryan said "It’s tough to justify chucking another song with ’love’ in the title on the pile, but ’Crawl in Love’ is truly the most unabashed, chock-full of joy song we’ve ever written and it came to us at a time when the endless horror of these times seemed to be really upping its game on a daily basis. I really needed to counter all the negative slime in my head in some way so I just went full cliché hippy and started writing list after list that explored and celebrated all ideas of love in the universe, a search for every last drop I could think of. Writing this one really gave me the mental rest I needed at that time."

New album, Black Rainbow Sound, is the band's first new material since early 2017’s Lemon Memory, and after a self-imposed break from tour duties, the album exhibits a profound shift in their sound, whilst still mainlining the blasts of noise, visceral power, and timeless pop songsmithery of their previous releases. Unlike the bands previous records, Black Rainbow Sound came to life in the bands studio, where Liza Violet and Ryan Needham built dense late-night orchestrations from drum machines, synthesizers, loops and guitar noise, before being ripped apart and reimagined by the full Menace Beach cast at The Nave studio in Leeds with producer Matt Peel (Eagulls).

Never ones to shy away from an intriguing collaboration, Black Rainbow Sound contains songs featuring Brix Smith of The Fall, and Brix and the Extricated. “The synchronicity of the universe just forced us and Brix together. The very day l finished reading her biography she played us on her BBC 6music show along with a wonderfully out-there monologue of how the song made her feel. I said thanks, we got chatting and it went from there. She’s a burning comet of positive energy. Liza has always made electronic music and has a very unique approach to what she creates on her synths  so I knew she’d do something magical if she took the reins in the studio. Turns out she was planning a subtle-yet-hostile takeover all along anyway."

Liza adds “There’s always been a bit of artistic push and pull between us on the balance of synth noise vs guitars noise and the guitars have previously always taken over, probably because we all know now how to make loud guitars sound really exciting in a room. But when we started writing this record I was feeling too much reality in the sound of a guitar and I really wanted to give something more this time. Once I had the sounds in my head I couldn’t really compromise."

See Menace Beach live:

18 Oct – Derby, The Hairy Dog

20 Oct – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds

22 Oct – Glasgow, Broadcast

23 Oct – Newcastle, The Cluny 2

24 Oct – Manchester, Deaf Institute

25 Oct – London, Oslo

26 Oct – Bristol, Rough Trade

27 Oct – Sheffield, Picture House Social

02 Nov – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

 

 

 

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